Adding Molding To Cabinet Doors

Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.

Adding molding to cabinet doors.

You can attach using short nails but for doors that are thin you want to use a strong adhesive. She showed me a pin that led to one life to love s diy beadboard panel doors after seeing the photo i knew it would be a great diy upgrade to make. See how you can diy shaker cabinet doors from your existing doors. Set up your doors on saw horses or somewhere easy to move around them on all sides.

I used this to make the cabinet doors and drawer fronts in the condo bathroom. A very simple and quick update is to add molding or trim to the cabinet doors. It s hard to believe these are the same cabinets original to this house. Use tape to label the backside of your cabinet door and the inside of your cabinets so you know where they should go when you re ready to hang them back up.

Use wood putty to fill in the gaps at the mitered corners and to fill in any nail holes. After the putty has dried sand prime and paint the cabinet doors image 2. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding as the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. With the four sides of the frame mitered attach the lip molding to the cabinet door first with a thin layer of glue then secure it with a nail gun image 1.

One day i was waiting at the paint counter at lowe s there was a bucket of yardsticks and i was thinking that i should buy wood trim that size because it s exactly the look i had in mind flat shaker style and the width of the boards were still small enough for the tiny drawers. And then on occasion i also use the panel molding that has the rabbet on the back. Here is how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding trim to the cabinet doors. I used this in my kitchen remodel but that s pretty much the only place i ve used it.

When my sister brought me on to the topsail beach condo renovation she had a laundry list of diy projects she wanted me to complete one of them was dressing up the hollow flat doors with moulding panels. Liquid nail is a great product because it s strong and will last. And here s what that little cabinet above the fridge looks like now. And of course there are the basics quarter round and shoe molding.

We built a frame that would sit on top of the cabinet and that we could attach the trim to the frame above the cabinet. Remove your cabinet doors and place all hardware screws in a ziploc baggy. If you won t be painting over the doors completely remember to stain or paint the trim to match.